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Watch ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Light a Bunch of Things on Fire in This Exclusive BTS Clip

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-31 10:00:42

Here’s an exclusive, fun look behind the scenes of Dean DeBlois’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon, showcasing the stuntwork and visual artistry that went into bringing a beloved animated franchise into the real world. io9 presents a clip from How to Train Your Dragon‘s home release that takes us to Viking training camp. Watch as stars including Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) get the hang of dragon riding on their mechanical bull-like dragon stand-ins. There’

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Form’s Smart Swim 2 goggles add heart rate tracking

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-01-31 10:03:35

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Nearly six years after introducing its original smart swim googles, Form has announced an upgraded version called the Smart Swim 2. The goggles carry forward the same features as the original, including a built-in 72 x 40-pixel display showing a swimmer’s various performance metrics. However, they’re now smaller and lighter, and while battery lif

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Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-31 10:25:03

Apple is investing $500 million in MP Materials, the only fully integrated rare earth mining company currently operating in the United States, as part of a broader effort to strengthen the domestic rare earth supply chain. The tech giant announced on Tuesday that with this deal, it’s committed to buying American-made rare earth magnets developed at MP Materials’ flagship facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The factory will develop a series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designe

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Apple makes $500 million deal with miner MP Materials for rare earths magnets

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-31 15:26:50

People look at iPhones at the Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York City on May 23, 2025. Apple and miner MP Materials announced a $500 million deal Tuesday for rare earths magnets and the development of a recycling facility that will reinforce the iPhone maker's U.S. supply chain. MP Materials stock climbed 10%. Shares of Apple were marginally higher. As part of the agreement, Apple will buy rare earth magnets created at the company's facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Both companies will combine

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Apple Weather app is returning after total outage

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-31 15:52:12

Apple’s Weather app went down for many users, showing no data. The issue applied on all platforms, suggesting a server issue. However, it now seems to be slowly returning … In what appears to be a relatively brief complete outage, many users reported that the app was showing no weather for any location. We were able to confirm that the issue applied across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The outage lasted around 15-20 minutes. While the underlying issue appears to have been resolved, it seems to be ta

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The best Alexa smart speaker I've tested isn't an Echo

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-31 15:36:46

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sonos Era 100 is a $249 smart speaker that I recommend to most people, audiophile or not. In addition to a full, booming sound, the Sonos speaker produces crystal-clear vocals that enhance any song and has hands-free Alexa for voice control. Since the Era 100 is built for smaller spaces, it doesn't support spatial audio or Dolby Atmos like its larger sibling, the Era 300. View now at Amazon When Sonos reached out to me to discuss the launch of a new line of smart spe

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Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 03:38:18

Ever wanted to text your foreign partner or chat with international friends but felt held back by missing vocabulary? Don't let language barriers stop you from connecting. No sign-ups, no subscriptions. Just open the app and start learning. Perfect for spontaneous moments when you need to express something important. Every correction is saved. Review your mistakes, practice pronunciation, and track your progress as you naturally improve. Hear how every correction should sound with high-qualit

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Praise and Addiction Fears: Musk’s AI Girlfriend Sparks Fierce Debate

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-31 15:34:06

How do you bury a controversy? If you’re Elon Musk, you drop an anime waifu into the middle of a scandal and watch the internet do the rest. Just days after xAI’s chatbot Grok sparked outrage for spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric and praising Adolf Hitler, the billionaire shifted the narrative by unveiling a new feature called Companions, which lets users interact with flirty, customizable AI avatars like Ani, a goth anime girl, and Rudy, a red panda. The feature went instantly viral. While xAI ha

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Student Loan Update: Here's What SAVE Borrowers Should Do Before Aug. 1

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 09:45:00

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET Starting on Aug. 1, borrowers who are enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan will begin accruing interest charges on their loan balances. The Department of Education is encouraging borrowers to pick a new payment plan, but you also have the option to leave your loans where they are. The Department of Education "urges all borrowers in the SAVE plan to quickly transition to

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Move Over Telsa Powerwall. EcoFlow Claims This New Battery is Better for Disaster Prone Areas

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 15:00:00

Between floods, hurricanes, and brownouts, being a homeowner in states like California, Texas and Florida can make it challenging to keep the lights on. A whole-home battery backup is usually a good solution, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, which the company says is the first “full integrated, multi-source home energy system in the US.” What that means in simpler terms,

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What Tariffs? Smartphone Market Grows 1% as More Devices Incorporate AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 15:14:14

Looks like curiosity about AI may be boosting smartphone sales. Shipments of smartphones increased 1% year over year in the second quarter of 2025, despite tariff volatility and worldwide economic instability, according to new data released from the International Data Corporation. Much of the increase in sales is attributed to midrange devices like Samsung's Galaxy A36 and other smartphones that have started incorporating AI. The report blamed a drop in demand for lower-end devices, including

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Peacock Promo Code & Deals: 16% Off July 2025

wired.com Molly Higgins 2026-01-31 05:00:00

Named after NBC’s iconic logo, Peacock is a video streaming service primarily featuring series and film content from NBC Universal studios, as well as news and sports programming. Premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content—yes, we’re talkin’ wrasslin.’ And right now, you can get access to all those programs with a Peacock Premium subscription. Save on your first 12 months with top Peacock promo codes and subscriptions, st

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Apple cuts a deal for recycling rare earth magnets in the US

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-31 15:19:05

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has announced a $500 million investment in MP Materials, a rare earth mining company based in the US. With the deal, the two companies will partner on the development of a rare earth magnet recycling line in Mountain Pass, California, allowing Apple to use reprocessed electronics and scrap material to build its products. Apple has worked with

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Facebook creators who steal and repost videos could lose their monetization

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-31 15:40:03

Facebook is cracking down on accounts that steal and repost content from other users in an effort to reduce spam in feeds. Meta announced on Monday that creators who repeatedly reuse someone else’s videos, photos, or text posts will lose access to Facebook monetization programs for “a period of time,” and see reduced distribution of their posts on the platform. “Too often the same meme or video pops up repeatedly — sometimes from accounts pretending to be the creator and other times from differ

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Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-01-31 15:05:02

As it races to build ever larger data centers, Google on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay more than $3 billion to source carbon-free hydropower from Brookfield Asset Management’s company, Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners. The first contracts under the deal include 20-year power purchase agreements, the companies said, altogether amounting to $3 billion, for 670 megawatts of capacity from two hydropower plants in Pennsylvania. The deal is part of a broader framework agreement that will allo

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The Download: combating audio deepfakes, and AI in the classroom

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-31 20:10:00

The news: A new technique known as “machine unlearning” could be used to teach AI models to forget specific voices. How it works: Currently, companies tend to deal with this issue by checking whether the prompts or the AI’s responses contain disallowed material. Machine unlearning instead asks whether an AI can be made to forget a piece of information that the company doesn’t want it to know. It works by taking a model and the specific data to be redacted then using them to create a new model—e

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Apple announces $500 million US investment focused on rare earth magnets

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-01-31 20:20:42

Earlier this year, Apple pledged a $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years. Now, the company is further expanding that pledge with a $500 million plan to “launch an all-new recycling facility for processing recycled rare earth elements.” With this investment, Apple will work with MP Materials and commit to buying American-made rare earth magnets developed in Fort Worth, Texas. The two companies will build out MP Materials’ “state-of-the-art Texas factory” with a “s

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The best student discounts we found for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-31 20:01:27

You’re probably using Adobe products if you’re studying anything related to digital art or design. Adobe Creative Cloud is the industry standard in this space but the entire suite of programs is quite expensive at $70 per month. Thankfully, Adobe has education pricing for students that drops the entire creative suite to $30 per month for the first year. That includes the big programs like Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC along with Lightroom CC, Premiere Pro CC, Adobe XD and more. After your fir

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Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 06:23:55

Is the game getting more exciting? Football (soccer) fans like to see exciting matches. Draws are boring but wins or losses are interesting; fans want to see teams give their all on the pitch. Which begs the question, is the game getting more or less thrilling over time? One way to answer this question is to look at fraction of matches in a league that end in a draw. The most boring extreme is every game is a draw (draw fraction = 1). The most engaging extreme is that every game ends in a win/l

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AI’s giants want to take over the classroom

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2026-02-01 04:00:00

The companies could face an uphill battle. Right now, most of the public perceives AI’s use in the classroom as nothing short of ruinous—a surefire way to dampen critical thinking and hasten the decline of our collective attention span (a viral story from New York magazine, for example, described how easy it now is to coast through college thanks to constant access to ChatGPT). Amid that onslaught, AI companies insist that AI promises more individualized learning, faster and more creative lesso

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AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2026-02-01 05:00:16

AI companies generally keep a tight grip on their models to discourage misuse. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to give you someone’s phone number or instructions for doing something illegal, it will likely just tell you it cannot help. However, as many examples over time have shown, clever prompt engineering or model fine-tuning can sometimes get these models to say things they otherwise wouldn’t. The unwanted information may still be hiding somewhere inside the model so that it can be accessed

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I finally found a pair of earbuds that drown out my noisy commute (and they're $99)

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-02-01 03:15:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The OnePlus Buds 4 are available now for $99. They give flagship earbuds a run for their money with top-notch ANC performance and a comfortable fit. The swipe gestures can be finicky, and the slick case is easy to drop. $99 at Amazon The OnePlus Buds 4 sit below the Pro model in name, but they borrow some of its best features and pack them into a more affordable price tag. With a handful of upgrades over their predecessor, the OnePlus Buds 4 feature a new dual DAC system

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Interest Restarts for SAVE Student Loans on Aug. 1. Should You Switch to Another Payment Plan by Then?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-01 03:45:03

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET Starting on Aug. 1, borrowers who are enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan will begin accruing interest charges on their loan balances. The Department of Education is encouraging borrowers to pick a new payment plan, but you also have the option to leave your loans where they are. The Department of Education "urges all borrowers in the SAVE plan to quickly transition to

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Google Keep could finally add the search option you’ve wanted for years (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-01 04:50:56

TL;DR Google Keep might finally let users search within a single note. The app currently allows finding content across all notes. With the new “Find in note” feature, users will be able to locate something specific within one particularly long or detailed note. For years, Google Keep users have been asking for a simple but much-needed feature, and it looks like their pleas are finally being answered. We’ve found strong evidence suggesting that Google’s note-taking app will soon give users the

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The Galaxy S25 FE might outpace the base S25 in one key area

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-01 06:12:24

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A regulatory filing has apparently listed the Galaxy S25 FE with 45W wired charging speeds. This would be a major upgrade over previous FE phones and the standard Galaxy S25. Previous leaks also point to the same chipset and rear camera system as last year’s phone. Samsung’s next big Android phone release is tipped to be the Galaxy S25 FE, and we’re not expecting many upgrades this year. However, a regulatory filing has apparently revealed one long-overd

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When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 04:43:08

In my opinion, the worst bugs are the ones you decide not to look further into. Maybe the problem only manifests 2% of the time, or when you run the code on a particular brand of toaster. Maybe the customer doesn't supply enough information to begin narrowing down the cause. Maybe you just don't have enough time to track the issue down fully. And everyone eventually moves on. But when you see the same bug strike again months later, you quietly mutter to yourself and wish you'd been persistent

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Tesla finally enters India — nine years after Elon Musk first teased its debut

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-02-01 06:48:10

Tesla has made its long-awaited entry into India with the opening of its first showroom — nine years after CEO Elon Musk first teased the move in April 2016 and following years of delays and shifting timelines in one of the world’s largest automotive markets. Tesla calls the showroom an “Experience Center” and has located it in Maker Maxity Mall in Bandra Kurla Complex, the central business district of Mumbai. The 4,000-square-foot center features the Model Y in rear-wheel drive (RWD) and long-

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Heat pump makers are ready for a rush: Will customers come?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-01 10:00:05

Heat pump makers are ready for a rush: Will customers come? 1 hour ago Share Save Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Share Save Chris Baraniuk Octopus makes heat pumps at its factory in Northern Ireland On the day I visit Octopus Energy's heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C. Some of the staff meeting me, who are usually based in the south of England, are beaming. It's wonderful to escape the heat, they say. And who can blame them. Climate chang

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Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2026-01-29 02:18:50

Bruno Luvizotto Carli Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. brunolcarli (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Competitive Pokémon battles often hinge on the initial selection of Pokémon leads. Anticipating an opponent’s lead choice offers a tactical edge, particularly in high-stakes matches. In this paper, I explore the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a natural language processing algorithm, applied to over 5,000 Pokémon Showdown battle logs, to predict likely lead pairs b

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The 2025 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge: Spurring Innovation for Edge and Mobile Devices

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2026-02-01 14:28:56

Imagine a downtown urban street on a traffic-heavy Saturday night. Now, add a severe snowstorm and an autonomous vehicle that safely navigates it all, despite fogged-up cameras, unpredictable pedestrians in oversized outerwear, streetlights throwing glare off a dozen wet surfaces, and the snow itself, which all but obliterates the visibility of traffic signs and lane markers. A computer vision (CV) system that could make this safe navigation possible would revolutionize not only autonomous

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Watch ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Light a Bunch of Things on Fire in This Exclusive BTS Clip

Form’s Smart Swim 2 goggles add heart rate tracking

Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials

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Apple Weather app is returning after total outage

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Peacock Promo Code & Deals: 16% Off July 2025

Apple cuts a deal for recycling rare earth magnets in the US

Facebook creators who steal and repost videos could lose their monetization

Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield

The Download: combating audio deepfakes, and AI in the classroom

Apple announces $500 million US investment focused on rare earth magnets

The best student discounts we found for 2025

Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results

AI’s giants want to take over the classroom

AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people

I finally found a pair of earbuds that drown out my noisy commute (and they're $99)

Interest Restarts for SAVE Student Loans on Aug. 1. Should You Switch to Another Payment Plan by Then?

Google Keep could finally add the search option you’ve wanted for years (APK teardown)

The Galaxy S25 FE might outpace the base S25 in one key area

When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery

Tesla finally enters India — nine years after Elon Musk first teased its debut

Heat pump makers are ready for a rush: Will customers come?

Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

The 2025 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge: Spurring Innovation for Edge and Mobile Devices

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